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高考英语同源外刊精读(第八期·2026年最新题源)

文章来源:NPR(美国国家公共电台)“My Unsung Hero”系列,2026年6月16日

文章标题:On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next

主题语境:人与社会——陌生人的专业与善意如何在恐惧中点亮一盏灯

高考对应题型:完形填空 / 读后续写 / 阅读理解B篇(2024年新课标II卷阅读B篇同源NPR)

难度:★★★☆☆(接近高考完形填空/读后续写难度)

建议用时:精读40分钟(先读原文,再看解析)

引导语:她刚被告知要做开颅手术,邻座的人掏出了一张纸

同学们,想象一个场景。

你20岁。你刚从医生那里听到一句话:“你可能需要做脑部手术。”你坐在回家的飞机上,脑子里嗡嗡作响。医生说的话,你只吸收了10%到15%。剩下的85%,全是恐惧和空白。

你是一个很注重隐私的人。你从来没有对陌生人说过这件事。但飞机起飞后,你和邻座的男人对视了一眼。他随口问了一句:“你去巴尔的摩做什么?”

然后你脱口而出:“我刚得知我要做脑部手术。”

你等着他露出尴尬的表情,等着他说“哦,会没事的”,等着他转过头去假装什么都没听到。

但他没有。

他看着你,说了一句话:“我是神经心理学家。我治疗过和你一样的病人。”

然后他从包里掏出一个笔记本,一叠方格纸,一支笔。在飞机的小桌板上,他开始画大脑的图。他标出海马体在哪里,杏仁核在哪里,手术会切掉哪一块疤痕组织,切掉之后会怎样。

你盯着那张纸,第一次觉得:我好像能听懂了。

这篇文章来自NPR的“My Unsung Hero”系列。2024年新课标II卷阅读理解B篇的题源就是NPR。而NPR这个系列,几乎就是高考完形填空和读后续写的“原型库”——短小、真实、情感集中、细节丰富。高考读后续写考“陌生人善意”,考的就是这种故事:帮助不只是解决问题,而是让一个人重新获得理解自己处境的能力。

读完这一篇,你会明白一件事:最高级的善意,不是替你承担恐惧,而是给你一张能看懂恐惧的地图。

一、原文

On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next

Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.

At 15, Simonitsch developed epilepsy. She started having brief seizures that affected her speech. Over the next five years, she cycled through medications, but the seizures continued. When she was 20, she flew from Charleston to Baltimore to meet with a neurologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He told her she was a candidate for brain surgery, which could remove the scarred brain tissue causing her symptoms. On the flight home, Simonitsch kept replaying what the doctor had told her.

“And like so many patients who receive difficult or big news, I had really only absorbed 10- to 15% of the conversation, and now I had so many questions. So I just recall being on the plane, looking out the window and feeling so many emotions in that moment. So the plane took flight, and then I made eye contact with the gentleman sitting beside me. And he must have asked me something along the lines of what was I doing in Baltimore. And to my surprise, being a fairly private person, I blurted out something along the lines of, I just found out I have to have brain surgery. And I remember saying it quietly. You know, it was kind of — I was practicing saying it out loud that first time I said it to him. And he turned to look at me, and he shared with me that he was a neuropsychologist, and he had worked with patients like me.

“And he asked me questions. He listened to me. He began asking me what I had learned at Johns Hopkins, what they had shared with me about the surgery. And then he clarified what some of those statements meant. And I’ll just never forget the way he smiled at me and very calmly, he leaned forward, pulled out a backpack or a briefcase, and brought out a notebook. And he had some really old-school, graph-like paper that he put on the airplane table. And he pulled out a pen, and then he just started drawing pictures of the brain and even marking sections of his drawing as he spoke and pointing out key details of where the hippocampus was and the amygdala, and this is what they would do with the surgery and how they would remove that scarred region.

“I didn’t understand the complexity of the brain and what this meant in terms of surgery. So the gift of having someone sit beside me, who was a compassionate listener and could speak to me at my level — I work in healthcare now — that is infrequent. That doesn’t happen often. And so I had this gift of this wonderful stranger with this expertise and compassion sitting next to me that day on the plane and explaining it.”

Rebecca Simonitsch lives in Santa Barbara, California. She still has that piece of paper, and she is now seizure-free.

二、全文翻译

在回家的航班上,一个陌生人帮她理解了接下来会发生什么

丽贝卡·西蒙尼奇刚刚得知自己可能是脑部手术的候选人。在回家的航班上,坐在她旁边的男人掏出一个笔记本,向她解释接下来会发生什么。

15岁时,西蒙尼奇患上了癫痫。她开始出现短暂的、影响说话的癫痫发作。在接下来的五年里,她尝试了一种又一种药物,但发作仍在继续。20岁时,她从查尔斯顿飞往巴尔的摩,去约翰斯·霍普金斯医院见一位神经科医生。医生告诉她,她可以做脑部手术,切除导致她症状的疤痕脑组织。在回家的航班上,西蒙尼奇一直在反复回想医生对她说的话。

“像很多收到艰难消息或重大消息的病人一样,我当时只吸收了谈话的10%到15%,而现在我有那么多问题。所以我只记得坐在飞机上,看着窗外,那一刻涌起了太多情绪。飞机起飞后,我和坐在旁边的先生对视了一眼。他一定问了我类似‘你去巴尔的摩做什么’的问题。让我意外的是,作为一个相当注重隐私的人,我脱口而出:‘我刚得知我要做脑部手术。’我记得我说得很轻。那是我第一次说出来,像是在练习。他转过头看着我,告诉我他是神经心理学家,治疗过和我一样的病人。

“他问我问题。他听我说。他开始问我从约翰斯·霍普金斯学到了什么,他们关于手术说了什么。然后他澄清了其中一些话的意思。我永远不会忘记他对我微笑的样子,他非常平静地向前倾身,拿出一个背包或公文包,掏出一个笔记本。他有一些很老派的方格纸,放在飞机的小桌板上。他拿出一支笔,然后开始画大脑的图,一边说一边在图上做标记,指出海马体在哪里、杏仁核在哪里,以及手术会怎么做,他们会怎么切除那块疤痕区域。

“我当时不理解大脑的复杂性和这对手术意味着什么。所以,有一个人坐在我旁边,他是一个有同理心的倾听者,能用我能理解的方式和我说话——我现在在医疗行业工作——这是不常发生的。这并不常见。所以那天在飞机上,我有一个了不起的陌生人坐在旁边,带着专业知识和同理心,向我解释这一切,这是一份礼物。”

丽贝卡·西蒙尼奇住在加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉。她仍然留着那张纸,现在她已经不再癫痫发作了。

三、高考高频词汇与固定搭配

1. candidate /ˈkændɪdət/ n. 候选人;适合……的人

例句:She was a candidate for brain surgery.

拓展:a candidate for(……的候选人/适合者)/ candidate for the job

高考提示:这个词在医疗和社会类文章中高频出现,注意`candidate for`的搭配

2. symptom /ˈsɪmptəm/ n. 症状;征兆

例句:Remove the scarred brain tissue causing her symptoms.

拓展:show symptoms of / mild/severe symptoms / symptom of

高考提示:健康医学类文章的核心词汇,2026年高考阅读C篇涉及健康议题时可能出现

3. absorb /əbˈzɔːb/ v. 吸收;理解

例句:I had really only absorbed 10- to 15% of the conversation.

拓展:be absorbed in(全神贯注于)/ absorb information / absorb knowledge

注意:absorb在这里不是“吸收液体”,而是“理解、消化信息”

4. blurt out 脱口而出

例句:I blurted out something along the lines of, I just found out I have to have brain surgery.

拓展:blurt(v. 脱口说出)/ blurt out a secret

高考提示:这是完形填空和读后续写中描写“情绪失控下的言语”的高频表达

5. along the lines of 类似于;大致是

例句:He asked me something along the lines of what was I doing in Baltimore.

拓展:along these lines(按照这个思路)/ in the same line

注意:这是一个口语化但高考阅读中可能出现的表达,理解即可

6. clarify /ˈklærəfaɪ/ v. 澄清;阐明

例句:He clarified what some of those statements meant.

拓展:clarify a situation / clarify one‘s position / clarification(n. 澄清)

高考提示:这个词在2026年第四期精读中已经出现过,说明它在高考题源中频率很高

7. complexity /kəmˈpleksəti/ n. 复杂性

例句:I didn’t understand the complexity of the brain.

拓展:the complexity of / complex(adj. 复杂的)/ complex system

高考提示:科普类文章的高频词

8. compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/ adj. 有同情心的;有同理心的

例句:A compassionate listener.

拓展:compassion(n. 同情心)/ compassionate care / show compassion for

高考提示:这个词是“善意类”文章的情感关键词,读后续写中可以用于描写人物的品质

9. infrequent /ɪnˈfriːkwənt/ adj. 不常发生的;罕见的

例句:That is infrequent. That doesn‘t happen often.

拓展:frequent(adj. 频繁的)/ frequency(n. 频率)/ infrequently(adv. 罕见地)

注意:作者在这里用`infrequent`和`doesn’t happen often`重复强调,说明这件事的珍贵

10. expertise /ˌekspɜːˈtiːz/ n. 专业知识;专长

例句:This wonderful stranger with this expertise and compassion.

拓展:expert(n. 专家)/ expertise in / professional expertise

高考提示:这个词在2026年第六期精读中也出现过(AI专家),是科技/社会类文章的高频词

11. seizure /ˈsiːʒə/ n. 癫痫发作;(疾病的)发作

例句:She started having brief seizures that affected her speech.

拓展:have a seizure / seizure-free(不再发作的)

注意:这个词在健康医学类文章中高频出现,理解即可,不需要会拼写

12. neuropsychologist /ˌnjʊərəʊsaɪˈkɒlədʒɪst/ n. 神经心理学家

例句:He shared with me that he was a neuropsychologist.

拓展:neuro-(神经)+ psychologist(心理学家)

注意:高考阅读中遇到专业头衔词时,不需要知道精确翻译,理解它是“和大脑相关的专业人士”即可

四、长难句分析(5句)

长难句1

And like so many patients who receive difficult or big news, I had really only absorbed 10- to 15% of the conversation, and now I had so many questions.

结构拆解:

介词短语作状语:like so many patients(像很多病人一样)

定语从句:who receive difficult or big news(修饰patients)

并列句1:I had really only absorbed 10- to 15% of the conversation

并列句2:now I had so many questions

翻译:像很多收到艰难消息或重大消息的病人一样,我当时只吸收了谈话的10%到15%,而现在我有那么多问题。

考点提示:`like + 名词`表示“像……一样”,是高考阅读中“类比”结构的常见表达。两个并列句用`and`连接,形成“过去 vs 现在”的对比。命题人常在此设“细节理解”题——问她在飞机上为什么有那么多问题。

长难句2

And to my surprise, being a fairly private person, I blurted out something along the lines of, I just found out I have to have brain surgery.

结构拆解:

介词短语作状语:to my surprise

现在分词短语作原因/让步状语:being a fairly private person

主句:I blurted out something along the lines of...

宾语从句:I just found out I have to have brain surgery

翻译:让我意外的是,作为一个相当注重隐私的人,我脱口而出:“我刚得知我要做脑部手术。”

考点提示:`to my surprise`是高考完形填空和读后续写的高频情感表达。`being a fairly private person`是现在分词作状语,表示原因。`blurt out`是“脱口而出”的生动表达。这个句子是全文的转折点——一个注重隐私的人,对陌生人说出了最私密的事。

长难句3

And he asked me questions. He listened to me. He began asking me what I had learned at Johns Hopkins, what they had shared with me about the surgery.

结构拆解:

三个短句并列,形成排比:asked / listened / began asking

宾语从句并列:what I had learned / what they had shared with me

翻译:他问我问题。他听我说。他开始问我从约翰斯·霍普金斯学到了什么,他们关于手术说了什么。

考点提示:三个短句的排比结构是高考读后续写中值得模仿的写法——用短句制造节奏感,强调“倾听”这个动作的持续性。`what`引导的两个宾语从句并列,是高考语法填空的常见结构。注意:这个陌生人的第一个动作是“听”,不是“说”。这是善意类文章的核心细节。

长难句4

And he had some really old-school, graph-like paper that he put on the airplane table.

结构拆解:

主句:he had some really old-school, graph-like paper

定语从句:that he put on the airplane table(修饰paper)

翻译:他有一些很老派的方格纸,放在飞机的小桌板上。

考点提示:`old-school`(老派的)和`graph-like`(方格状的)是复合形容词,用连字符连接。`that he put`是定语从句。这个细节描写(“老派的方格纸”)是高考读后续写中值得学习的写法——用具体的物品细节传递人物的特质(一个随身带方格纸的神经心理学家,比“一个很专业的陌生人”更有画面感)。

长难句5

So the gift of having someone sit beside me, who was a compassionate listener and could speak to me at my level — I work in healthcare now — that is infrequent.

结构拆解:

主语:the gift of having someone sit beside me

定语从句:who was a compassionate listener and could speak to me at my level(修饰someone)

插入语:I work in healthcare now

谓语:that is infrequent

翻译:所以,有一个人坐在我旁边,他是一个有同理心的倾听者,能用我能理解的方式和我说话——我现在在医疗行业工作——这是不常发生的。

考点提示:`have someone do`(让某人做某事)是高考高频结构。插入语`I work in healthcare now`是作者在多年后回看这件事时补充的视角——她现在也在做帮助别人的工作。这个插入语是高考读后续写中“升华”的常见手法:被帮助的人,后来成为了帮助别人的人。破折号后的`that is infrequent`是全文的情感落点。

五、备考建议

这篇文章怎么用?

1. 第一遍:不看翻译,限时6分钟读完,尝试理解大意。读完后问自己:这个陌生人做了什么?为什么这件事对作者如此重要?作者现在从事什么工作?

2. 第二遍:逐句精读,查生词,把上面的12个高频词汇抄进你的单词本(和3500词计划并行)。特别注意`blurt out`、`compassionate`、`infrequent`、`expertise`这几个表达。

3. 第三遍:把5个长难句抄下来,自己先划分主谓宾,再对照解析。重点注意:`to my surprise`、现在分词作状语、排比短句、复合形容词、`have someone do`结构。

4. 第四遍:大声朗读全文3遍。读的时候特别注意那些细节(方格纸、画大脑、海马体、杏仁核)——高考读后续写最值得模仿的,就是这种“用具体细节代替抽象形容”的写法。

为什么选这篇?

NPR的“My Unsung Hero”系列是2024年新课标II卷阅读理解B篇的直接题源。这个系列的特点极其适合高考:短小(3-5分钟读完)、真实(真人真事,有录音采访)、情感集中(一个陌生人,一个关键时刻,一份持久的感激)、细节丰富(方格纸、画大脑、轻声说出“脑部手术”)。

2026年全国一卷读后续写的原文出自加拿大地方媒体的“Kindness of strangers”报道,同样是“陌生人救助”的叙事。高考读后续写和完形填空正在持续考查“善意如何发生、如何被记住、如何改变一个人”。NPR这个系列,就是你训练这类写作的“原型库”。

更重要的是,这篇文章的核心不是“他安慰了她”,而是“他让她理解了正在发生什么”。善意不只是情绪支持,更是用你的专业和耐心,帮一个人从恐惧中找回理解自己处境的能力。这个主题,比简单的“帮助+感动”高一个层次。高考读后续写要拿高分,就需要写出这种层次。

下期预告

下一期我会从NPR“My Unsung Hero”系列中选另一篇2026年的故事(可能是“机场里陪伴丧母女性的陌生人”或“16岁少年车祸中被卡车司机救下”),对应高考完形填空和读后续写的最直接题源。如果你有特别想读的话题方向,欢迎在评论区告诉我。

最后,一句话总结这篇文章的核心

“有一个人坐在我旁边,他是一个有同理心的倾听者,能用我能理解的方式和我说话——这是不常发生的。”这句话,就是高考读后续写最想考查的东西:善意的高级形式,不是替对方承担痛苦,而是让对方重新获得理解自己处境的能力。你读懂了这一点,写续写时就不会只写“她很感动”,而是能写出“她第一次觉得,自己好像能听懂了”。

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